Sword God in a World of Magic

Alex walked towards the area where the giant octopus had landed.

He didn't want to miss out on any potential rewards the hedgehog had for him.

While Alex was walking to that place, he looked at his left arm.

His left arm was no longer frozen, and it actually felt a bit hot. Sadly, his left arm was still severely injured. The freezing of organic material completely destroyed its structure, severing veins, and many other things.

Alex's left arm hadn't been in pain while it had been frozen, but as soon as it had thawed, Alex felt searing pain coming from it.

Alex couldn't really move it much, but he could still experiment with it.

The ethereal spire had entered Alex's left arm, and it remained there. He had already accidentally shot some cold air out of his left arm earlier, and Alex wanted to know how that worked.

Alex was already familiar with how it felt to move Mana, and he willed for the cold Mana in his left arm to explode.

SSSHH!

A blast of cold air left Alex's left arm. Since his left arm was still limply hanging around, the cold hit part of Alex's left leg and the ground.

The ice below Alex's left arm grew by a bit, and the coat on Alex's left leg completely froze.

However, Alex was too busy with something else.

As soon as Alex had willed the Ice Mana to explode, his arm started to burn. Well, it wasn't burning literally, but it felt like it was burning.

Alex quickly ran to one of the spots with destroyed ice. The octopus had destroyed a huge part of the lake when it had surfaced.

SSSSSS!

Alex put his arm directly into the icy water and gritted his teeth. The sound of something hot touching cold water could be heard as soon as Alex's arm hit the water.

'Fuck! That's so hot!' Alex thought. 'Are you serious?! You have Mana, and you follow the Laws of Thermodynamics?! You want to make stuff cold, so you have to make other stuff hot?! Why can't you just do something magical?!'

After a while, Alex pulled his arm out and moved it through the air for a bit.

His arm had received several burns.

However, it was coated with a thin coating of ice now.

His arm definitely felt colder than before.

'My arm is colder than before. So, let's try again!'

SSSHH!

Another blast of cold air, and Alex immediately dipped his arm into the cold water again.

'It's not as hot as previously, but it still feels like I touched a hot plate or something,' Alex concluded.

After a while, Alex pulled his arm out again.

'I wonder, can I use less?'

Mana but also made a bit

SSSH!

cold wind left Alex's left arm again, and Alex's arm heated

time, Alex's arm wasn't burning

temperature that

left Alex's left arm wasn't as cold as in the

about everything he had witnessed. 'So, my arm heats up proportionally to how cold the air is. I'm not sure, but I think the amount of air leaving my arm is the same as the weight of my arm. Because of

I need to

with his right

a little bit. Just a tiny,

SSSSSHH!

coming out of the arm.

had formed on Alex's

icicles off his face and looked at his arm with

probably only heated up by

blast uses the outside temperature as a

hot, and if I unleashed a blast equaling 20°C, the blast of air would be -60°C, and

a

all, if I were in some desert that's 50°C and I did

environment, the effect would be different,' Alex thought as he looked around. 'Sure, the creatures living in such a cold environment have a great cold resistance,

a 50°C hot desert wouldn't mind a blast of 30°C hot air. However, a beast living in a -40°C cold tundra would have some issues with a blast of -60°C

5°C cold arm without issues. It would simply feel very dull, numbs, and awkward. However, I could unleash a blast of 35°C. In a cold climate, this would severely damage someone. After

with like 60°C or something. Sure, my arm would get severe burns and would

Alex scratched his chin.

surely are some uses for this ability in a fight. My sword is one-handed anyway, leaving me with a free

had been walking all this time, and he finally came close

passed a tree and saw an area

gigantic needles poked out of the unmoving

munching on the octopus, seemingly without a

up to one of the tentacles and saw how it

tentacles of the octopus, and just

like Alex stood before the fleshy wall of

fifty meters long, which

tentacle and walked along

the spot where the

after some seconds, it noticed

extended its head to Alex and sniffed several

a bit

ethereal spire in his body? After all, it was currently munching on the creator and actual

Alex smelled similar to

He hoped not!

bit of sniffing, the hedgehog pulled its

at the octopus

back at Alex

that, the hedgehog walked to the tentacle where

CRUNCH! CRUNCH! CRUNCH!

of biting, the hedgehog had

BANG!

the hedgehog threw the tentacle a couple of meters